If you have been raised with Christ, you have new life and will seek the things that are with Christ. You will focus on God’s things, not on your own things....

Abundance is used in the Gospels both positively and negatively. In the feeding of the multitudes, the baskets of leftover food point to the bountiful excess of God’s rule (see Luke...

I am a quilter, and like many quilters, I have a fabric stash, a collection (or rather a massive pile) of fabric that I have bought without a plan. This is...

Hosea’s images can be overwhelming, showing God as destructive and punishing. But Hosea also reveals the tenderness of God and the hope that God is with us even as the world...

Who are the people you don’t respect? Who are the people you or your friends constantly cut down as not really understanding what is right and what is wrong? Who are...

In my early life as a follower of Christ, I embraced the familiar understanding of creation (God created everything good), fall (humanity sinned), and redemption (Christ’s death provided rescue from sin)....

A recent Pew Research Center study projects the percentage of Christians in the U.S. might decrease from 64 percent to between 54 and 35 percent by 2070. At the same time,...

It is the example of Jesus praying that prompts Jesus’ disciples to ask him to teach them to pray. Through this display, we see that God’s generosity precedes the first utterances...

Our text for today begins with a teaching on how to pray, the words of which have become a staple for communities gathered to worship God. The second section contains a...

Having been assured of God’s faithfulness in response to our naming of our acts of unfaithfulness, we are now invited to share our deepest longing for relief, restoration, and redemption to...